 | The University of Virginia record February 1, 1918 |  |
REGULATIONS.
The Session-Hour.—All courses are measured in terms of the session-hour
as a unit. A session-hour is one hour a week throughout the session of lecture
or recitation, or two hours a week throughout the session of laboratory work.
Maximum and Minimum of Session-Hours in One Session.—Each student
is required to undertake each session courses aggregating at least fifteen
session-hours. This number may be increased in the following cases:
(1) First-year students may take eighteen session-hours, provided (a) three
of these be in Greek A1, Greek A2, German 1, French 1, or Spanish 1; or
(b) the student in question is credited with six hours of advanced standing.
(2) Other than first-year students may take eighteen session-hours, provided
the student (a) has passed in the preceding session courses aggregating
preceding session, or (c) is in his graduating year and needs eighteen session-hours
for his degree.
(3) Other than first-year students may take twenty-one session-hours,
provided they have passed in the preceding session courses aggregating fifteen
session-hours, with a general average of at least ninety per cent.
Exceptions to the above regulations will be allowed only by special permission
of the Academic Faculty.
Physical Training and Military Science are not counted in the maximum and
minimum requirements detailed above.
Grade.—The grade of a student in any course, either for a term or for the
session, is determined by his class standing and his examination grade, combined
in such proportion as the professor in charge of the course in question
may decide. Class standing in any course is determined by the regularity of the
student's attendance upon the lectures (and laboratory or other similar exercises)
of the course, and by the quality of his work, as indicated by his recitation
grades, written tests, laboratory work, etc.
Grade Required for Passing.—For passing in any course a grade of
seventy-five per cent is required.
Grade Required for Reöxamination.—A student whose session grade in
any course falls below seventy-five per cent, but not below sixty-five per cent,
may, upon the written recommendation of the professor in charge, be admitted
to reöxamination upon that course, or upon such portion of it as the professor
shall determine, during the registration week of the following September. The
fee for each reöxamination is five dollars, and must be paid to the Bursar on or
before July 15.
An applicant for a degree who fails on a single term of not more than
one of his courses during the last year of his candidacy, is entitled to a special
examination before Final Day on the work of that term, and will receive credit
for the course, provided the result of this special examination entitles him to a
grade of seventy-five per cent for the term in question, considered independently
and without reference to his grade for the other two terms. In such cases no
reöxamination fee is charged.
Minimum Grade Required.—Any student whose average grade in all his
courses for any term is less than fifty per cent, will be dropped from the rolls.
Any first-year student whose average grade for any term is fifty per cent
or more, but who attains in no one of his courses a grade of sixty-five per cent,
will be put on probation for the term next ensuing, and if he again fails to
attain for the current term a grade of sixty-five per cent in at least one of his
courses, he will be dropped from the rolls.
Any student other than a first-year student whose average grade for any
term is fifty per cent or more, but who attains in no one of his courses a grade
of seventy-five per cent, will be put on probation for the term next ensuing, and
if he again fails to attain for the current term a grade of seventy-five per cent
in at least one of his courses, or sixty-five per cent in at least two of his courses,
he will be dropped from the rolls.
A student who through neglect of his work is evidently making no real
progress in a course may at any time, after due admonition, be required to drop
the course in question; and if, for the current term or for any succeeding term
of the current session, his grade in any one of his remaining courses falls below
forty per cent, he will be put on probation.
Advisers.—To each first-year student is assigned, before his registration
is completed, a member of the faculty as his adviser, whose acquaintance he
should cultivate, and whom he may feel free to consult on any question touching
his work or his life as a student of this university.
Subjects of Study in a student's schedule may be changed, dropped, or
added to, only with the consent of his adviser and of the professors concerned,
and only within the first two weeks of each term, except that first-year students
may make such changes at any time during the first month of the session.
Absence from Lectures may be excused by the professors, but only for
sickness or like providential cause. Any explanation of an absence which a
student has to offer must be made on the day of the first lecture after the
absence. Unexcused absences from lectures render the student liable to such
penalties as his professors may impose, or, in serious cases, to faculty discipline.
No student who has, for any reason, been absent from more than fifty per cent
of the lectures of any one term, can receive a grade on the work of that term.
Absence from Examinations will not be excused except for sickness on
the day of the examination, attested by a physician's certificate, or for other
cause which the faculty by special order may approve. An unexcused absence is
counted as a total failure.
Special Examinations.—A student whose absence from an examination
is excused, is entitled to a special examination on a date to be arranged between
himself and the professor in charge, not later than the end of the registration
period of the following session.
Reports.—Reports are sent at the end of each term to the parent or
guardian of each student. These reports indicate the number of times the
student has been absent from lectures, and give his term grade in each course.
Preliminary reports on attendance and class-standing are made on November 4
to the parent or guardian of every first-year student. The Dean will be glad at
any time to furnish to the proper person a special report on any student's
standing.
| The University of Virginia record February 1, 1918 | |